House Oversight and Government Reform ranking member Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is promising to give a “careful relook” at climate change science in the wake of last year’s “Climategate” scandal if Republicans take over the House.

“That doesn’t mean that global warming isn’t happening,” Issa told The Hill on Wednesday. “It means that we have to make sure that when we recalibrate what’s happening, why it’s happening, how much it’s happening, we need to ensure that we get a careful relook at the figures so that we’re accurate.

“It could be happening faster or slower,” he added, “but it’s very clear that those people played fast and loose with both the truth and our money.”

On the other side, we have the Enviro Nazis of the European Union who, regardless of what the real world evidence or the science actually says, are determined to go on fighting their lost green cause to the bitter end. Their latest scheme? To try to impose a flight ban on the airlines of any countries which fail to observe its strictures on CO2 emissions: (H/T Nick Mabbs)

Foreign airlines are threatened with a flight and landing ban from 2012 in the European Union if they do not participate in emissions trading.

The ban is proposed in an internal document by the EU Commission seen by Handelsblatt. Summarised on nine pages, the guidelines describe how such a ban could be implement. The Commission considers a flight and landing ban as a last resort to make the airlines surrender over its Emissions Trading Scheme.

Who will the eventual victors be?

Well, it goes almost without saying, I'm backing the Republicans. They're about to capture the House. They might bag the Senate too. And in 2012 – provided they learn the lesson of the Tea Party movement and understand that what the US wants is smaller government and lower tax not some faux-conservative, David-Cameron-style compromise – they're going to win the White House too.

This will make it any kind of global agreement on carbon trading impossible because if the US won't play ball (and with the Tea Party in control it most definitely won't) then the rest of the world won't either.

At this point Al Gore, James Hansen, Carol Browner, Van Jones, Ted Turner, Robert Redford, Michael Moore, Ed Begley Jr, Michael Mann and all our other favourite eco chums may be forced to retreat to their bunkers, where they will pass round the necessary phials. This will be very sad but I don't think we should try to stop them. I for one would certainly not wish these poor souls to have to live with the shame of having caused so much damage and misery over the years by being so very, very wrong about everything.